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  1. Re:So everything is protected by a 4 digit passcod on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    And you can enter only numbers, and the password input will look like pass code import, but with unlimited numbers.

  2. Region lock? on South Park Game Censored On Consoles Outside North America · · Score: 1

    Do region locks still apply?

    How, in a legal way, am I supposed to acquire this art piece in the version the artists wanted me to appreciate?

  3. Re:All HTTP traffic should be encrypted on Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    So, no error when the user connects to https://google.com/, https://mybank.com/ etc., that have self signed certificates? How is the browser supposed to guess when the connection needs a correctly signed certificate or not?

  4. Re:Will it fly? on Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops · · Score: 1

    I won't dispute your point, only remark that ntfsfix, as other ntfsprogs, tries very hard to be conservative, and bail out if unsupported metadata is found.

    For my cases, it has worked correctly. One recurring problem is with a NTFS formated pen disk, that sees some hard shutdowns.

  5. Re:Will it fly? on Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops · · Score: 4, Informative

    ntfsfix is the equivalent fsck.ntfs

    It comes in the package ntfsprogs.

  6. Re:Model M on Hands-On With SteelSeries Ikari Mouse and New 7G Gaming Keyboard · · Score: 1
    I'm a happy client of Das Keyboard II.

    Enough cicky-clack to annoy your workmates, and a good feel to it.

    Never had a Model M, though, so I can't give a comparison.

    Also, I only have slight problems with the lack of key information w.r.t. the top row (numbers and symbols on top). YMMV, of course.

  7. Re:Bad for VMWare on MS Announces Date for VMM2 beta · · Score: 1

    KVM is not an hypervisor. KVM is a kernel interface that provides user-mode access to CPU specific virtualization features. From the mandatory wikipedia entry: "By itself, KVM does not perform any emulation..."

    An hypervisor isn't an emulator. Xen, until recently, didn't support unmodified guests nor hardware emulation.

    Only since the new processor features, Intel VT and AMD Pacifica (IIRC), did it start supporting running unmodified guests, and the emulation is also performed using a modified version of QEMU.

    However, I agree that kvm isn't an hypervisor, as it runs under the host os, not above.

  8. Re:Wait a second... on Should Apple Give Back Replaced Disks? · · Score: 1
    I think leopard. I had just installed it from scratch, with little data in my home partition, and decided to give FileVault a try.

    Note that I wasn't able to mount my new, protected home, either with my password or the master one. So I couldn't even find a way to revert the change except with a reinstall.

  9. Re:Wait a second... on Should Apple Give Back Replaced Disks? · · Score: 1
    FileVault didn't work for me. I keep my /Users in another partition, and FileVault successfully encrpyted my home, but OS X was afterwards unable to mount it.

    I tried then to restore a backup of my home (not encrypted), but OS X kept trying, and failing, to mount a FileVault home, so I had to reinstall OS X.

  10. Re:MAC address REQUEST? on IPhones Flooding Wireless LAN At Duke · · Score: 2, Informative
    From the article:

    The requests are for what is, at least for Duke's network, an invalid router address. Devices use the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to request the MAC address of the destination node, for which it already has the IP address. When it doesn't get an answer, the iPhone just keeps asking.

    "I'm not exactly sure where the 'bad' router address is coming from," Miller says. One possibility: each offending iPhone may have been first connected to a home wireless router or gateway, and it may automatically and repeatedly be trying to reconnect to it again when something happens to the iPhone's initial connection on the Duke WLAN.

  11. Re:Um... on Microsoft Pleads With Consumers to Adopt Vista Now · · Score: 1
    Don't even get me started about managing focus stealing in any kind of intelligent way.

    I don't want *any* focus stealing. That's why I still prefer Linux with Metacity as WM. OS X is somewhat better than Windows on that respect, but not as good as I'd like. Is there any app or configuration option to tweak that?

  12. Re:Grub on ZFS On Linux - It's Alive! · · Score: 1
    You mean "If you can mount it, you can use it as a root partition, with the proper initrd/initramfs". The boot partition is where the initrd/initramfs is read from, so you can't rely on stuff in your initrd/initramfs for booting.

    Yes, that's what I mean. Thanks for the correction.

  13. Re:Grub on ZFS On Linux - It's Alive! · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yes, if you can mount it, you can boot from it, with the proper initrd/initramfs.

    As for the maintainer for sysvinit, the lsm tells you that. Or you could go with the maintainers of your distribution.

  14. Re:The reason why our company does is ... on Why are Websites Still Forcing People to Use IE? · · Score: 1
    Zope uses Basic Auth for its management interface, and includes a logout link that works in every browser I tested.

    It works by always ignoring the authorization submited by the browser for that link and returns HTTP 401 with the same realm. This causes the browser to consider the login data invald and discard it, and rerequest it from the user.

    Example:

    GET /manage_zmi_logout HTTP/1.1
    Authorization: Basic ...

    HTTP/1.x 401 Unauthorized
    WWW-Authenticate: basic realm="Restricted Area"
  15. Re:Square or Curly brackets? on How To Adopt 10 'Good' Unix Habits · · Score: 1

    I understand what you mean now. You're right, of course. As for my first comment, the "is empty" and "is set" means that it's undefined or defined to an empty/null value in the first case, and defined to a value different than null in the second case.

  16. Re:Square or Curly brackets? on How To Adopt 10 'Good' Unix Habits · · Score: 1

    Empty and unset are not the same thing.

    They are, for the uses I mentioned: :-, := and :+.

    But not for the case you demonstrate: ${VAR+text} (or ${VAR-text}, etc.)

    I'm not familiar with ${VAR[+-=]text} instead of ${VAR:[+-=]text}, I've been using bash from when I started using Unix. Both bash and ksh uses the form with '=', is the one without it from the original bourne shell?

  17. Re:Square or Curly brackets? on How To Adopt 10 'Good' Unix Habits · · Score: 5, Informative
    The correct form is {}, not []. There are other things you can use with ${VAR}:
    • ${VAR:-text if $VAR is empty}
    • ${VAR:=text if $VAR is empty and set VAR to this}
    • ${VAR:+text if $VAR is set}
    • ${#VAR} -> length of $VAR
    • ${VAR#pattern} or ${VAR##pattern} -> remove match of pattern from beginning of $VAR (## -> longest match)
    • ${VAR%pattern} or ${VAR%%pattern} -> remove match of pattern from end of $VAR (%% -> longest match)
    There are other formats (see the man page), but these are the ones I use the most. Eg:

    for i in *.png; do convert "$i" "${i%.*}.jpg"; done
  18. Re:The Internet is... on Internet Only 1% Porn · · Score: 3, Informative
    It's pointed at the end of every country specific google page:

    http://www.google.com/ncr

  19. Re:Just for the record. on Wired Dissects Sony as PS3 Effort Falters · · Score: 1
    x is y's Portugal.

    I've seen this a couple of times, but I don't understand it. Could you please explain it? Thanks.

  20. Re:And remember... on 22,000 Indiana Students Using Linux Desktops · · Score: 1

    Hey, they even have albinos! :)

  21. Re:where can I order mine? on $100 Laptop Takes Flight in Thailand · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop, and you're right, that movement was external to the project.

  22. Re:Version numbering on Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't need to reboot.

    1. init 1
    2. install driver
    3. init 5

    (or, instead of init, telinit. It's the "correct" way)

    BTW, if you can install the drivers without human intervention (in nvidia case, you need to extract the files from the package first), put something like this in /etc/rc.local (or /etc/rc.d/rc.local):
    modprobe -q module || script_to_install_driver

  23. One explanation on Are three cores better than two? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From the article:

    These two processors do not only differ in the manufacturing process: Changes to the memory controller have been made during the transition from 130 to 90 nm and SSE3 extensions were added. Opteron 248 was designed for HT800 (200 MHz bus), while the Opteron 275 is capable of running HT1000. Finally, the cache size per core is different as well.

    My guess is the crashing programs are detecting SSE3 and when a thread that uses it runs in the single core processor, the application is killed for trying an "illegal instruction."

  24. Toggle link/text on Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit · · Score: 1
    Here's a javascript I just made, that changes links to text (completely, they're no longer links) and back again to links.

    Tested under Firefox as a bookmark.

    (originally a ingle line, to make it shorter, but now with spaces for /.)

    javascript:function r(){
    var i,ss,a,c;
    while(1){
    ss=document.getElementsByTagName("SPAN");
    c=0;
    for(i=0;i<ss.length;++i){
    if(ss[i].olda){
    c=1;
    a=ss[i].olda;
    ss[i].olda=null;
    ss[i].parentNode.replaceChild(a,ss[i]);
    }
    }
    if(c==0)break;
    }
    };
    function c(){
    var i,as,s;
    while(1){
    as=document.getElementsByTagName("A");
    if(as.length<1)
    break;
    for(i=0;i<as.length;++i){
    s=document.createElement('SPAN');
    s.innerHTML=as[i].innerHTML;
    s.olda=as[i];
    as[i].parentNode.replaceChild(s,as[i]);
    }
    }
    };
    function t(){
    if(document.chg){
    r();
    document.chg=0;
    }else{
    c();
    document.chg=1;
    }
    };
    t();
  25. Re:What piece are we talking about? on The Ups and Downs of MySQL AB · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oracle acquired Innobase, maker of InnoDB.